The Documents section features digitized copies of documents relating to the history of the school. These documents include correspondence, graduation pamphlets, and other forms of ephemera, and have been digitized by Digital Resource Center staff. Today, these documents are preserved in a number of locations, including the Dickinson College Archives and Special Collections as well as private collections.
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July 21, 1914 - September 28, 1915
These materials include correspondence regarding a request to pay irregular student labor for harvesting grain planted at the Carlisle Indian School which exceeded the previous fiscal authorization.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
View Document: Authorization to Pay Students for Extra Harvesting Labor1.2 MB
July 21, 1914
Carlisle Indian School Oscar H. Lipps requests authority from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to spend $250.00 for emergency supplies until contract supplies arrive.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Financial Documents
View Document: Fiscal Request to Pay for Emergency Supplies131.05 KB
July 21, 1914
Carlisle Indian School Oscar H. Lipps requests authority from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to spend $100.00 "for incidental expenses" relating to "the administration of the Carlisle Indian School."
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
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Format: Financial Documents
View Document: Fiscal Request to Pay for Incidental Expenses145.81 KB
July 21, 1914
Carlisle Indian School Oscar H. Lipps requests authority from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to spend $250.00 "for engraving, mounting, and making plates and plats of Indian art designs for catalogue and magazine work."
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Financial Documents
View Document: Request to Pay for Materials to Reproduce Indian Art Designs135.71 KB
July 27, 1914
Commissioner of Indian Affairs Cato Sells writes to Warner Thompson regarding the death of Annie S. Ely, the former head of the Outing Department at the Carlisle Indian School. Commissioner Sells praises Ely's record of nearly 30 years in that…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Death of Annie S. Ely, Former Head of the Outing Department88.24 KB
July 28, 1914 - May 3, 1915
These materials include correspondence regarding a request by Superintendent Oscar H. Lipps to change admission rules for students from the Five Civilized Tribes in Oklahoma. Prior to Lipps request, students from these Nations were required to…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Alter Admission Policy for Oklahoma Nations1.84 MB
July 28, 1914 - August 5, 1914
Representative A. Mitchell Palmer recommends Carnegie Technical School Professor J. H. Nolen to be teacher of an upcoming practical building course at the Carlisle Indian School.
Commissioner of Indian Affairs Cato Sells informs…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Teacher for Possible New Practical Building Class200.68 KB
July 30, 1914 - September 9, 1914
These materials include correspondence regarding a request to have Mary Shomin returned to her home at Government expense following the expiration of her term.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
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Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Return Mary Shomin Home584.18 KB
August 7-25, 1914
These materials include correspondence and a government document regarding a new policy for student vacation requests. Superintendent Oscar H. Lipps notes that, because the circular outlining the policy was received late, some students did not…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
View Document: Request for Guidance on New Student Vacation Request Policy473.15 KB
August 11-20, 1914
These materials include correspondence regarding a request by Louisa Jordan to enroll her daughter Winona Isabell Jordan at the Carlisle Indian School to learn the dressmaking trade. The request is denied, and Jordan is recommended to enroll her…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
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Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Enrollment of Winona Isabell Jordan253.99 KB
August 12, 1914 - May 4, 1926
This material includes a request the Louis Lange Publishing Company, publishers of the German magazine Abendschule, for information about the history of the Carlisle Indian School. This information, along with a list of further readings…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Information about the Carlisle Indian School by Abendschule381.29 KB
August 15 - September 16, 1914
These materials include correspondence regarding a request by S. S. Kempton to have an exemption granted so his three children could enroll at the Carlisle Indian School. The request is denied.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Request for Enrollment
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Enroll Kempton Children948.87 KB
August 17, 1914 - September 17, 1914
Supervisor in Charge of the Carlisle Indian School Oscar H. Lipps writes to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs regarding a $5,000 donation from sisters Mary P. and Eliza O. Ropes in 1908. He states that the money was given to former…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Donation from Ropes Sisters in Massachusetts227.02 KB
October 22, 1908-November 13, 1917
These materials primarily consist of correspondence between the Office of Indian Affairs and the U. S. Department of Justice, in particular an Assistant Attorney General Charles Warren. In this correspondence, officials discuss whether or not…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
View Document: Discussing Potential Federal Trial of Siceni Nori and Moses Friedman 21.52 MB
August 19, 1914
Two memos between government officials which discuss what laws or court cases are relevant to the investigation into the mishandling of money of the students of Carlisle. These were compiled in the wake of the 1914 Congressional Investigation at…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Memorandum Concerning Policy for Handling Student Funds2.79 MB
August 20, 1914
A list of documents related to the charges against Moses Friedman and Siceni J. Nori in the aftermath of the 1914 Congressional Investigation at Carlisle as prepared by the Department of Justice.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: 1914 Congressional Investigation
Format: Reports
View Document: Memorandum related to Letter from Department of Justice for Nori Case1.22 MB
August 26, 1914
This document contains corresponence concerning the appendicitis case of Sarah Parkhurst. This includes a medical bill.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Student Illness, Medical Care at School
Format: Financial Documents
View Document: Notice of Illness of Sarah Parkhurst142.06 KB
August 31, 1914 - October 10, 1914
These materials include correspondence on the topic of industry, which arose from the 1914 Lake Mohonk Conference.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Lake Mohonk Conferences
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Discussion of Industry at the Lake Mohonk Conference, 1914361.4 KB
August 31, 1914
Assistant Commissioner E. B. Meritt informs Chief Special Officer Henry A. Larson that Carlisle Indian School Supervisor Lipps would like to commissioner one of his school employees, Edward Corbett, as a deputy. Lipps would like Corbett to be…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Indian School System, Student Alcohol Use
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Commission a Deputy to Halt the Sale of Liquor152.61 KB
September 3-5, 1914
These materials include a request from Superintendent Kelsey of the Union Agency to have a police officer escort three boys from Carlisle to Oklahoma.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
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Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Police Escort from Carlisle to Oklahoma171.48 KB
September 4, 1914 - March 6, 1915
Supervisor in Charge Oscar H. Lipps requests to spend $100.00 from the "Indian School, Carlisle, Pa., 1915" fund for the payment of incidental expenses incurred in the administration of the school. A few weeks later, he calls attention to his…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Financial Affairs - Management
View Document: Request to Expend $102.80, Fiscal Year 1914-1915677.12 KB
September 18-28, 1914
These materials include correspondence regarding a request to enroll Hampton Thomas, a member of the Choctaw Nation, who sought an exemption to enroll due to being over the age of 21.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
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Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Enrollment of Hampton Thomas219.87 KB
September 19-24, 1914
These materials include a request by H. M. Lippincott, Secretary of the General Alumni Association of the University of Pennsylvania, for a copy of the final report of the 1914 Congressional Investigation into the Carlisle Indian School.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: 1914 Congressional Investigation
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for 1914 Investigation Report by H. M. Lippincott226.85 KB
September 19-29, 1914
These materials include correspondence and a circular internal to the Carlisle Indian School regarding economy and waste in the school's industrial departments.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
View Document: School Circular Order on Economy and Waste272.54 KB
September 21 - October 12, 1914
These materials include a request by D. H. McMillan to be granted an exception in order to enroll at the Carlisle Indian School as a student over the age of 21. The request was denied as McMillan was from Robeson County, North Carolina in…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Enroll from D. H. McMillan224.44 KB